Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Brown

When he was walking through the crowd, they started doing soccer chants for him,

Ronaldo

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

Ronaldo

I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

Ronaldinho

I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field.

Ronaldinho

My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Ronaldinho

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

Ron Atkinson

There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

Ron Atkinson

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

Ron Atkinson

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

Ron Atkinson

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

Ron Atkinson

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Ron Atkinson

On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

Ron Atkinson

The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

Ron Atkinson

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

Woody Allen

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

Will Ferrell

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

Riccardo Muti

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.

Tucker Carlson

Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

Valentino Rossi

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

Robert Plant

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

Samuel Eto'o

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Samuel Eto'o

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Wayne Gretzky

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Robert Hughes

If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

Robert Hughes

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

Wally Schirra

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Rod Stewart

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Wes Welker

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

Zach Braff

For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know?

Ziggy Marley

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Vladimir Putin

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.